After going to bed too late again I did sleep well and woke up feeling actually motivated. I wrote my morning pages and then that was it for the day. I mean, almost. I had one of those super paralyzed days.
I only got out of bed at a time when I should have already sat in front of breakfast, my husband was rather confused when he should up late and I was just changing out of pajamas.
We ate breakfast, we talked. Husband wanted to know what was up and how he could help but I could only shrug. I’m in a mood, can’t get started, no idea why, no, you can’t help, sorry.
I finished knitting the front of Weaver B and started the back, at least. I wrote my blog post and did the dishes while listening to some music, I also listened to a bit of publishing workshop and then made a list for the health food store. And the tea shop.
I walked to the tea shop in the sun, met the tea shop owner for the first time in ages and bought all the tea. And ordered two more pounds. Turns out if I buy two pounds instead of one I get 10% off.
By the time I was at the health food store it was already rather late but I did get most of what I needed, some other things and an extra helping of chocolate.
I came back home, my husband and I unpacked the groceries together and then we ate lunch:
I’m trying to to eat more veggies, always a good idea, but I just realized that veggies for the past few days meant loads and loads of cabbage.
Then there was teaching. This time I did make use of the short break and watched some more of the WordPress theme course. At one point I finally realized that I don’t have to sit through every single, „and to set the margin on a column we open the settings menu in the column, click on design, then on margin…“ video start to finish.
While I was busy being bored it had started to rain. While I was teaching the next student the rain became harder and harder, until it started to hail. And then there was thunder. And lighting. And it was really close. You know, when the thunder and lighting are almost at the same time? And then it comes even closer and it feels like lighting struck our annex and then the lights go out? While hail is coming down on your skylight?
Very exciting.
So I flipped the fuse switch and the lights came right back on. Phew. But. There was no internet. Oops. Probably the router. I restarted the router, then went to make a copy for my student. While I was at the copier the student after called me on my cell but I was to slow to answer. At the same time my husband told me he didn’t have internet and that the lighting must have hit the annex because there had been a spark from a power strip in his room. (I think if that had been the case the fuse in the power strip would have blown but what do I know.)
Anyway, turns out we use the internet a lot, even when teaching. Especially YouTube.
I talked to that student who had tried to reach me, she didn’t feel safe getting to her lesson. The student who had left had been picked up by a parent in a car so that was alright.
I restarted the router again, then restarted the mesh routers, nothing. I turned mobile data on, got a message from another student who was afraid of leaving the house and asked about doing the lesson online. Well, not without wifi. Tried it again, all the time dealing with students and their parents. My husband had a student who had parked his convertible in a side street but the top wasn’t working properly. So when it started hailing my husband supplied him with a tarp and something to weigh it down with.
My next student had arrived by car as well, the last student of the day and I finally managed to meet online and the weather turned sunny again.
Oh, and I took a picture of the hail on the skylight:
After that I met my husband in the kitchen again, where he was doing the dishes. I had to wait for the boy so I helped him.
The boy and I did a new variation of our bodyweight routine. Instead of 3 sets of 10 we did 10 sets of 3 with dynamic effort. Which means every time you do something away from the floor you do it real fast. Lovely. And every set lasts only one minute. When I told the boy that that was what my book told us to do he thought that it wouldn’t really make a difference. Ha! The book says we’re supposed to take it easy the next time with 2 sets of 7 and I can already tell that I will definitely need that.
After that I could finally eat dinner, the boy and I demolished the leftover pasta salad. I spent some time online, then started writing this post, made a list for today, watched some C-drama, did Duolingo, foot exercises and read a bit and then went to bed.
And today the piano tuner. I need to make a note, the A4 key has a really annoying buzzing resonance and then there is another key that feels like it’s almost catching on its neighbors but only when I play that one particular song.
I’m sure I’m the piano tuner’s dream client. Very particular and incredibly vague at the same time.
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